😲 Microstrategy Could Have Pocketed $1.3B if Saylor Had Bought ETH

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DeFi What Ifs

😲 Microstrategy Could Have Pocketed $1.3B if Saylor Had Bought ETH

Defiant Data Crunch Shows Ether Would Have Paid Off Nicely for Software Maker

By Samuel Haig

$4B BET What if Michael Saylor had bought Ethereum instead of Bitcoin? During the bull market of 2020-21, Saylor, the Bitcoin-loving CEO of Microstrategy, made one of the most famous crypto bets ever — he directed the business intelligence software maker to invest $4B in the No. 1 cryptocurrency, according to data from Bitcoin Treasuries.

LOSS Now, with crypto tumbling in a punishing bear market, Saylor’s decision has left Microstrategy with a paper loss of $1.3B. If only he’d bought Ether.

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DeFi + TradFi

🏦 JPMorgan Dives into DeFi After CEO Trashed Crypto as ‘Ponzi’

Lender’s Onyx Unit Executes Live Trades of Tokenized Currencies in Pilot Project

By yyctrader

ESTABLISHMENT JPMorgan Chase & Co., the No. 1 U.S. bank and a charter member of Wall Street’s financial establishment, has gone DeFi. Or at least, one of its blockchain-focused units has.

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NFT Deals

🤝 Polygon Scores Deal with Instagram to Support NFT Creators

Distributing Meta’s NFT Toolkit Latest Win for Layer 2 Blockchain Network

By Samuel Haig

NEWS Meta may be cratering in the stock market but that won’t Polygon’s eye-opening deal with the social media giant any less sweeter. Instagram users will soon be able to create and sell NFTs on Polygon, the Layer 2 blockchain with a total value locked of $1.3B, Meta said Nov. 2.

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Bridging Protocols

❓ Multichain Says User Funds Safe in Response to Questions

Bridging Protocol Provides Details on Fund Management Practices After L2BEAT Raised Concerns

By Aleksandar Gilbert

QUESTIONS One week after The Defiant reported on questions about the management of user funds in Multichain, the bridging platform pointed toward a blog post published on Sept. 29. Its main message: user funds are safe.

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The Tube

📺 Daily Defiant: DeFi 2.0 makes a comeback with “Chicken Bonds”

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DeFi Explainers

🤔 What Is DeFi Lending?

A Step-by-Step Guide to One of the Most Popular Practices in Crypto

By Rahul Nambiampurath

BANK Decentralized finance (DeFi) is essentially borrowing on a peer-to-peer system without a bank. But how is it possible to have P2P lending without the bank securing the collateral and liquidating it if the loan fails to be paid?

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🔗 Are NFT Royalties the Way? How to Build a Sustainable Creator Economy: Unchained

Sterling Crispin, artist and software developer and Holly Herndon, host of the Interdependence podcast, talk about the problems that creators face, some potential solutions, and the debate over creator royalties.

🔗 Web Summit Lisbon, Nov. 2: Latest updates from Cointelegraph’s team on the ground

Web Summit, one of the premier world tech conferences, is back live in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Coinbase’s 1.5% APY is Half the Savings Rate Offered by BanksCoinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US, has announced that its users residing in the US, the U.K. and the European Union, excluding Germany and Italy, can now earn up to 1.5% APY on their USDC stablecoins.
Art Gobblers Spikes to 5,000 ETH in Volume as NFT Collectors Pile In That didn’t take long. Art Gobblers, an NFT project from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, began minting on Monday and immediately became one of the hottest collections of the month.

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